Records Of Illinois Trapshooters

[Ed Blake]

I am looking for any information on four Illinois Parker shooters from around WWI. Their names are in a Parker order book having ordered trap-configured guns in 1916, but I have no idea if they were shooters of any note.

William Sampson of Eldorado, Ill. Owner of Wm. Sampson Lumber Co.
A. W. Summers
Roy Harvey
L. W. Cummings (Lee William)

If anyone has access to old records of Illinois shooters I would certainly appreciate their looking for these gents.

Thanks

[Bill Murphy]

1913 Cummings, Harrisburg, Ill., 125X150, .8333.
1914 None shot.
1915 Summers, Eldorado, 433X550, .7872
Cummins, Harrisburg, Ill., 138X150, .9200
1916 Cummins, Harrisburg, Ill., 355X400, .8875
Summers, Eldorado, 376X450, .8355
Harvey, Eldorado, 246X300, .8200
1917 None shot.
1918 Cummins, Harrisburg, Ill., 121X150, .8066
1922 None shot.

OK, Ed, I don't know whether this Cummins or Cummings is your guy. They spelled his name Cummins three out of four times, so I assume this guy is Cummins. Isn't your L.W. Cummings' name engraved on his gun? Do you think Parker Brothers misspelled his name? I also thought he was from Troy, PA. I hope this information is of interest to you.

[Ed Blake]

He was from Troy, but I think he may have lived in Illinois for a while. He did not start his company in Troy until 1929. Everything I've seen so far says he was born in Troy. The old records misspelled his name. They just dropped the g. Thanks for digging that up.

[Bill Murphy]

Ed, don't forget to keep me on the list.